Ban the bag - and save the planet
In a few thousands years when archaeologists are rooting about in the middens of the 21st Century it won't be skulls and jaw bones they'll be finding like their counterparts of today.
No, it will most likely instead be plastic carrier bags they'll be digging up. I know this because I have been watching a plastic bag for over a week now.
Not constantly, you understand, it only attracted my attention by snagging itself on some excess wire atop the telephone pole that stands less than ten metres from my office window. I had expected the bag to last only a day or so until it ripped and blew away. Instead, it has hung on tenaciously, flapping in the wind like a makeshift flag. Fortunately, to no adverse effect on the phone line.
Had it ended up in a landfill site, along with a mountain of disposal nappies, it no doubt would survive for several centuries unmolested. So do the world a favour and just say no to carrier bags the next time you're in a shop. Because we all know that once you take them home and stuff them in a drawer, plastic carrier bags just start breeding like rabbits. Put a couple in a drawer, or wherever you keep them, and there are at least ten more the next time you go back and look.
So, if you don't do anything else particularly Green, at least save the planet from an invasion of unwanted carrier bags.
